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生き物 (いきもの): living thing, creature — Japanese vocabulary

生き物 is read いきもの and means "living thing, creature". JLPT N3 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

生き物

Reading
いきもの · ikimono
Translation
living thing, creature
Level
JLPT N3
Pitch accent
いきものがいきものが

Example

空気がなかったら、すべての生き物は死ぬであろう。

くうきがなかったら、すべてのいきものはしぬであろう。

But for air, all living things would die.

Kanji in this word

  • 生 — life, birth
  • 物 — thing, object

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